The activity, process, or art of creating and constructing gardens; the work involved in designing and building garden spaces.
Compound of 'garden' and 'making' (the gerund form of 'make'), combining two Old English-derived elements. This parallels similar compound gerunds like 'peacemaking' and 'policymaking.'
Gerunds (verb forms ending in '-ing' used as nouns) let us talk about activities as things: 'I love gardenmaking' treats the action itself as a noun you can love or discuss.
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